Robert Cedric Sherriff, son of Herbert Hankin and Constance Winder Sherriff, was born at Kingston-on-Thames, near London, where his father was an employee of the Sun Insurance Company. At seventeen, h...
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R. C. Sherriff is remembered mainly for his plays, especially Journey's End (1929); despite the commercial success and critical acclaim enjoyed by his second novel, The Fortnight in September (1931), ...
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R. C. Sherriff is chiefly remembered as the author of a single play, Journey's End, which was first produced at the Apollo Theatre in London in 1928. It was not his first play, but it was the one in w...
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R(obert) C(edric) Sherriff